Term Reading Assignment- Book Review Blog

Laura Hillenbrand Unbroken 2001 Random House, New York Unbroken begins with a flashback to the point in time were the main character Louis Zamperini was a little child. It spoke of how he was a trouble maker and they wished he would be more like his brother, but really his brother was the worst one but he never got caught. It moves on to show Louis joining the track by his brother wanting him and Louis quickly learns and does really well. Louis becomes very good that he makes it into a collage and runs track which then pushes him to compete at the Olympics and meets Adolf Hitler and takes one of his personal flags. When Louis comes back he trains to be in the Air Force and is enlisted into a new B-24 aircraft. Louis and his crew do very well in many missions and he was put in very important air raids. Louis and his crew have been hit very badly and their plane is ruined after one of their air raids and their plane is ruined so they get another plane which is not in shape to be flown and they go out to find another plane that has crashed. On the way they are separated with another plane that was out looking with them and soon after they go down and are stuck in the middle of the ocean. They are soon captured and put into prison. They are forced to live in horrible conditions and the only reason they can put up with it is the thought of getting back at their captures. This book was an excellent book with showing the hardships of the war and his and his friends fight for survival in the air, at sea, and in the prison. It explained how the turn from no view of the Germans to being horrible people since they did a very well job of hiding what they were doing while the Olympics. The book really didn’t open many new insights since it showed what many people have come to know of the Germans during the time of the war and the prisons that the captives of war would face if they were lucky. The book Unbroken can relate to this time period by how many Americans go off to war and come back not being the same and how they are changed from how they started off. This book has become one of my favorites by how it really takes in what the war truly is and how the people in it are. The war is not what most people think and it shows it by what the type of people joined the war and were not prepared for what was to come.

Political Backlash and the Palmer Raids

Political Backlash and the Palmer Raids The town of Norwood has done many things for the Americanization of their people. The people of the town wanted to put all of the immigrant’s cultures into theirs and create one whole culture for the town. Many people would fight for the assimilation and would stand and have speeches that were fighting for it. The newspaper the Norwood Messenger was a newspaper that had fought for the assimilation and would write about the failed attempts of Americanize adult “aliens” and proposed that businesses and corporations become involved by running English language courses straight in the business. The newspaper also wrote about how the women should also learn English so the men could have access to learning the language not just in the work space but at home too. Started saying non English speaking residents should be required by law to go to school to learn English as children. People started to think that it wasn’t the right idea to bring in these immigrants in the first place. New editorials showed up aimed at radical politicians, the new Soviet Union, and its Bolshevist agents.

Practice Blog

Here is my blog for my book Unbroken. This will be due Dec. 6th and I have to be typying on this god awful laptop